Not long after Yuchi Gong and Cheng Yaojin left, the maid in the house led Yuechan and a middle-aged man into the front hall.
Yuechan glanced at the pale Qin Ming, then saluted respectfully:
"This slave has met the man from Qin County."
Qin Ming smiled and saluted Yuechan and said:
"I've met Madam Yuechan. I wonder what the Queen's orders are when Yuechan comes here?"
Yuechan shook her head, pointed at the imperial physician beside her, Wang Bo, and said:
"The Queen was very worried when she heard that the county man was injured last night, so she asked her servant to come over with the imperial doctor's order to treat the Qin County man's injury."
Qin Ming nodded slightly and thanked:
"Thank you, Queen, for your concern. I just suffered some skin trauma. It was sutured last night, so I don't need to bother with the medical order."
Yuechan pursed her lips when she heard this, and was about to say something when Wang Bo, the imperial physician on the side, suddenly lit up.
He bowed to Qin Ming and said:
"Did the Qin County man use the wound suturing technique for this injury? I have admired this technique for a long time. I wonder if the Qin County man can let me check out the benefits of this technique?"
Qin Ming was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said:
"Can."
After saying that, Qin Ming took off his coat, rolled up the sleeves of his underwear, and exposed his bandaged arms.
Wang Bo didn't expect Qin Ming to agree so happily, so he was overjoyed. He walked quickly to Qin Ming and carefully opened the gauze.
When the ugly wound was exposed, Wang Bo not only did not frown, but his eyes lit up. Qin Ming, who was very interested, discussed the principles of wound suturing.
When Yuechan saw the wound on Qin Ming's arm, she couldn't help but be surprised. She didn't expect Qin Ming to be so seriously injured.
She was a martial arts practitioner, and with just a simple glance, she could roughly guess the depth of the wound and the weapon used by the enemy at that time.
After Wang Bo bandaged Qin Ming's wound again, Yue Chan asked:
"Mr. Qin County, can you tell me what happened last night?"
Qin Ming nodded, and then told Yue Chan what happened last night.
After listening to Qin Ming's narration, Yuechan frowned and asked solemnly:
"You mean, the person the murderer wanted to kill last night was you?"
Qin Ming nodded again.
The reason why he wanted to make this matter clear was for a very important purpose.
I just wanted to see Li Er and Chang Sun's reaction to this matter.
He wanted to know what Li Er and Chang Sun would do after they found out the real murderer.
Either to be conciliatory, to pretend to be confused, or to seek justice for oneself.
If Li Er and Chang Sun choose the first two, then in addition to secretly seeking revenge, they will also have to consider staying away from Chang'an.
If it's the latter, then Qin Ming can consider continuing to stay in Chang'an City and help Li Er with economic construction.
From this point of view, Qin Ming felt that being assassinated this time was a good thing.
Through the outcome of this matter, he can see many things clearly and help him make many decisions.
After a while,
Yuechan hurriedly left the Qin Mansion. She had to return to the palace quickly and report the matter to her empress.
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At 2:00 noon, Huaidefang, Duke Lu's Mansion
Cheng Yaojin entered the backyard of the mansion with a gloomy look.
He kicked open the courtyard door and said to the servants in the courtyard:
"Go, take those two traitors out to me and tie them to a tree."
As soon as Cheng Yaojin finished speaking, several servants rushed into the house of the Cheng Chumo brothers.
Soon the two were tied to the big willow tree in the courtyard.
The two brothers fought until very late at Baihua Pavilion last night, so after returning early in the morning, they slept soundly in the house.
At this time, they didn't know what happened last night, so they just thought that their stay in the brothel last night was exposed.
"Dad, I know I was wrong, and I won't dare to do it again next time."
"Dad, the child also knows that he was wrong."
Cheng Yaojin became even more angry when he heard what the two brothers said. At this time, the two of them still didn't know what happened.
How could I have given birth to such two idiots?
Thinking of this, Cheng Yaojin's grip on the whip tightened, and he gritted his teeth and said:
"You two losers, at this time, you don't even know what happened? Why did I give birth to you two idiots? What's the use of you? I'll beat you to death. It's better than being played to death by others in the future. , disgrace my old Cheng family!"
The Cheng Chumo brothers were not stupid. From what Cheng Yaojin said, they were beaten not for visiting a brothel, but for another reason.
So Cheng Chumo struggled and asked:
"Dad, why don't you just beat us up? What happened? Why don't you tell us? If we are really wrong, we just accept the punishment."
When Cheng Yaojin heard this, he whipped the two of them severely.
Then he snorted coldly:
"What's going on? You two little bastards were almost killed by you two last night. Do you know that?"
Cheng Chumo and Cheng Chuliang were both stunned when they heard this.
Soon the two brothers asked anxiously:
"Brother Ming, what's wrong with him? What happened?"
Cheng Yaojin was tired of beating him at this time. He found a bench and sat down. He looked at his two sons and said disdainfully:
"You still have the nerve to ask. Qin Ming was assassinated by two barbarians in the street last night. He was stabbed several times. If he hadn't been very skilled, he would have died in the alley of Pingkangfang last night."
Cheng Chumo and the other two's eyes immediately turned red when they heard this, especially when they thought that they almost caused the death of their good brother for a fun last night, they both felt guilty.
Cheng Chumo and Cheng Chuliang shouted and asked:
"Dad, who is the bastard who wants to harm my brother? I must kill him."
Cheng Yaojin curled his lips when he heard this and said:
"Just you two idiots? Save it?"
When the two Cheng Chumo brothers heard this, a fire suddenly rose in their hearts, thinking that one day they would do something great and let the old man see what they were capable of.
"Dad, please let us down first. We are going to visit Brother Ming's house."
Cheng Yaojin thought for a while and asked with a serious face:
"There's no rush now. You should first tell me why you wanted to take Qin Ming to Baihua Pavilion yesterday. What was the reason? And why didn't you leave Baihua Pavilion with Brother Ming yesterday?"
Cheng Chumo and the two men saw Cheng Yaojin's serious look and immediately recalled it.
Soon the two of them started talking to each other about the reason why they took Qin Ming to Baihua Pavilion yesterday.
Cheng Chumo had two reasons. One was to participate in the poetry competition and win the opportunity to have sex for free. The other was that the boss of Baihua Pavilion promised him that as long as he took Qin Ming there, he would let a certain lady in the pavilion Accompany him.
As for Cheng Chuliang, he wanted to show off to his friends in the future that he had a brother who was astonishingly talented. In addition, he just wants to win some money from Changsun Chong and others.
Cheng Yaojin frowned after hearing this. After thinking for a long time, he asked some more questions.
After peeling off the cocoon, Cheng Yaojin probably had some thoughts in his mind.
He felt that the assassination of Qin Ming was probably done by the boy from the Changsun family, and the remaining 20% was uncertain mainly because he had no evidence.
Cheng Yaojin thought about the current power of the Changsun family and Qin Ming's current status. He sighed silently in his heart.
Then he said to the Cheng Chumo brothers:
"This matter ends here. No matter who asks in the future, you will just say that you went to Baihua Pavilion just because you wanted to take Qin Ming to have sex for free. Do you understand?"
Both Cheng Chumo and Cheng Chumo didn't understand what Cheng Yaojin meant, but they nodded obediently amid the new round of fried pork with bamboo shoots.
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